Crab

Crab is a creature type species used for various, predominantly marine, crustaceans.

Ancient Crab
Creature Type
(Subtype for creature/kindred cards)
Introduced	Tempest
Last used	Duskmourn: House of Horror
Scryfall Statistics
44 cards 75% 6.8% 2.3% 15.9%
3 token creation cards 100%
2 typal synergy cards 50% 50%
101 artworks 5.9% 3% 67.3% 3% 4% 4% 12.9%

Description

Crabs are characterized by a broad flattened head and trunk covered by a hard carapace with a small abdomen concealed beneath it, short antennae, and five pairs of legs, of which the anterior pair is large and pincer-like. Mechanically they are high-toughness creatures at common for blue, with simple to no abilities.

The first creature to bear the type was Giant Crab in Tempest. A related race is the Homarids.

Notable crabs

Zendikar

• Charix

Universes Beyond

Fallout

• Red Death (card)

Tokens

Token name	Color	Type line	P/T	Text box	Source	Printings
Crab		Creature — Crab	0/3		Hard Evidence Scuttletide Specimen Collector
Uchuulon		Creature — Crab Ooze Horror	*/4	Uchuulon’s power is equal to the number of Crabs, Oozes, and/or Horrors you control. Horrific Symbiosis — At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target creature card from an opponent’s graveyard. If you do, create a token that’s a copy of Uchuulon.	Uchuulon

Playtest cards

Token name	Color	Type line	P/T	Text box	Source	Printings
Charix, the Raging Isle		Legendary Creature — Leviathan Crab	0/17	Spells your opponents cast that target Charix, the Raging Isle cost more to cast. : Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.	The Crab Queen
Ruin Crab		Creature — Crab	0/3	Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)	The Crab Queen
Skittering Crustacean		Creature — Crab	2/3	: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn’t monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as Skittering Crustacean is monstrous, it has hexproof. (It can’t be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)	The Crab Queen
Skitter Eel		Creature — Fish Crab	2/2	: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)	The Crab Queen

Trivia

• Riptide Crab is the only crab which is also white.
• Uchuulon is a Crab Ooze Horror, and the first black crab.
• Iceberg Cancrix is a Snow Crab.
• Crabs are a popular subtype in the Simic Combine:
  • Simic Keyrune is a manstone that can become a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof. Two other Crab hybrids appear as Skitter Eel and Growth-Chamber Guardian.
  • Three other multicoloured Crabs hail from the Simic on Ravnica: Shambleshark, Sharktocrab and Scuttlegator. These are the only Crabs to have green in their casting cost.
• For other odd creature types, Chromeshell Crab and Oraxid are Crab Beasts. Wormfang Crab is a Nightmare Crab. Vexing Scuttler and Drownyard Behemoth are Eldrazi-corrupted Crabs.